WWE News: Brodus Clay Funks Up Behind the Scenes, Then on National Television

No, that wasn't the latest bout of a wrestler struggling with demons in the form of King Kong Bundy on an acid trip, that was the highly-anticipated debut of Brodus Clay. 

Billed and booked as a monster with serious main-event potential on WWE NXT, Brodus Clay's original debut on the main roster fell flat with the former bodyguard for Snoop Dogg miscast as Alberto Del Rio's job-heavy lackey. 

The broom that everybody says Shawn Michaels could have a standout match with could have probably beaten that Brodus Clay.

After pulling Clay from the main roster early in 2011, the WWE seemingly realized the error of their ways with the 396-pound potential killing machine.  They booked him in a series of squash matches on WWE Superstars towards the end of the year en route to a highly touted debut ripe with fanfare and footage of Clay's Umaga-like stopping power. 

One ill-advised tweet later, and 396 pounds of stopping power was recycled into a gluttonous, dancing funky pebble. 

This was Dusty Rhodes in polka dots.  Barry Windham in the woods.  2 Cold Scorpio with disco boots.  Lance Storm doing the cabbage patch. 

All rolled into one—and possibly equivalent in weight—as the Funkasaurus Brodus Clay--finally made his debut all the way from Planet Funk. 

A smirking Justin Roberts introduced the once-promising monster as he tried to keep his facial expression from reverting to the natural "what the hell am I wearing" look.

Clay juked and jived his way to the ring like Teddy Long on lard.  That angry monster you were promised through a consecution of those simple, yet effective, vignettes quickly transformed into a colorful backup dancer for Richard Simmons' Sweatin' to the 80's. 

Those in attendance—the casual fan—stood in awe and befuddlement, but jaded fans knew exactly what was going on.

This was a receipt. 

Prior to John Morrison's departure from the WWE last year, Brodus Clay fired off a premature tweet claiming he would "destroy" Morrison.  The plan had apparently been for Clay to make his debut then, making quick work of Morrison in what was supposed to be JoMo's last WWE match for a while. 

The tweet was deleted shortly thereafter, suggesting wrongdoing on Clay's behalf, as Brodus' would-be debut would be habitually pushed back despite weekly promises from Interim RAW GM John Laurinaitis. 

Coming from the superfluous world of hip hop, Clay's apparent sense of entitlement was to be closely monitored upon his WWE entrance by the same old boy's network machine that mortgaged a potentially money-drawing heel run from Sheamus in favor of a short-lived, Irish Captain America Gimmick forced upon the Celtic Warrior because his head reportedly got too big.  

Clay's Funkasaurus gimmick was more of WWE creative sitting back and thinking "how can we teach this guy a lesson?" than any semblance of a well thought-out gimmick that could actually be viable.

But I'm sure Vince loved it.

To make matters worse for the Funkasaurus, Brodus Clay became the No. 1 trending topic on Twitter on a night where Alabama and LSU were competing for the National Championship on ESPN. 

The hardcore trending is more than enough to make the powers that be feel justified in what was otherwise a waste of a television segment and possibly a career.  Given the buzz that the Brodus Clay's new gimmick has created in such a short amount of time, don't expect the Funkasaurus to become extinct anytime soon. 

If nothing else, Jurassic Park IV is currently in the works. 

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